Chinese trade

It’s a $1.7tn figure with a generous splattering of Tencent. 

How China might (emphasis on ‘might’) respond to capital controls.

Luxury fashion meets surveillance suppression chic.

When tariffs close a door in one place, they open a window elsewhere.

Look at the indirect effects as well.

US consumers are feeling the pain.

It will create a lot of volatility.

New chart from Torsten Slok.

After a trade deal, America will need an industrial policy.

What does a “stable” Chinese currency even mean?

US equity markets price in a 60 per cent chance within a year.

In which we think back on our own year.

The renminbi is not yet a global currency.

Trade-related news has slashed roughly 6 per cent off the S&P 500 this year, says Bank of America.

The country must still grapple with lacklustre credit growth.

Since the trade war, a gutted industry.

The semi-annual report comes out any day now.

China's landmark infrastructure and trade initiative stirs up controversy.

More charts from the People's Republic.

China's currency approaches a key threshold.

CLSA map it out.

It's just not the thing the White House has made it into

US farmers decline a subsidised option, get one anyway

America vs China, round two.

Yet slowly but surely the inflation trend in China is turning.

One of the go-to guys on trade litigation between the US and China is Bill Perry, a Seattle-based attorney who spent the 80s at the US International Trade Commission, the Office of Chief Counsel and Office of Antidumping Investigations, and the US Department of Commerce. While tackling all sorts of anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases, he runs a blog that covers what it says on the tin: US China Trade War And if you ask him about the fast-escalating case involving China’s ZTE Corp, Bill will offer you one word: Hòumén (back door or 后门 in simplified Chinese.